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10/02/2006 Archived Entry: "Sentient Trains (and Heavy Equipment)"

Glenn Fleishman riffs on the consequences if sentient trains like Thomas the Tank Engine really existed: "In one recent five-day period, two Scottish engines destroyed the narrow-gauge winch, one green engine demolished most of our island's chocolate factory, another pushed recalcitrant--or as you term them, 'troublesome'--trucks into a duck pond, an express engine smashed through the wall of a new station, and a small blue engine wound up with fish in its boiler."

This also strikes me about Bob the Builder. Imagine bulldozers, steam rollers, cement mixers, all with the personalities and judgement levels of preschoolers! I wouldn't want big equipment learning life lessons while careening through towns, dawdling along country lanes, or bird watching instead of getting on with their jobs any where near me!

(tags: GlennFleishman, ThomastheTankEngine, Sodor, BobTheBuilder)